Word: tenderizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration was trying last week to counter the Soviet p.r. blitz with some salesmanship of its own. The American emissaries carried no fresh initiatives of real substance. Instead, they sought to reassure America's allies with friendly rhetoric and promises of flexibility on both arms control and other tender issues. To a large extent, each man succeeded, though Reagan's loose talk about propaganda undercut Bush...
Hennessy is a man who ought to know. Allied played the role of "white knight" in the merger mess, which was stirred up last summer when Bendix Chairman William M. Agee, 45, made a surprise tender offer for the shares of MX missile contractor Martin Marietta. But Martin Marietta turned the tables on Agee. The company promptly retaliated by trying to buy Bendix, and the result was a corporate donnybrook in which the two companies acquired huge chunks of each other and made headlines in the process. Finally Allied was called in by Bendix to buy Bendix stock and save...
Lady Luck certainly played its part. Dixon's opponents--BU's Mark Kimball and Brandeis's Mark Beeman--came out of the blocks with a slow pace which delayed putting pressure on Dixon's tender foot until the late stages of the race...
...make the same kinds of films but bigger, and without all those people who talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road. Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful Australian director could end up making lots of money and losing his distinct national voice...
...must have attacked the field with a vengeance, because at the tender age of 28 he has already knotched tenure at Harvard, a plum position on the staff of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), and a reputation as one of the rising young stars in the field...